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Coasts - Coggle Diagram
Coasts
Erosional processes
Corrasion
Waves hurled rocks at coast, break off rocks from the coast, form lines of weaknesses
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Solution
Chemicals in the seawater react with soluble substances in the rocks, rocks weakened and dissolved
Hydraulic action
waves compresses air in pockets of lines of weaknesses, exerting pressure and joints weaken and rocks shatter
Landforms
headlands and bays
different bands of more and less resistant rocks formed headlands and bays because of diff rates of erosion
notches caves and cliffs
constant wave action create pressure onto lines of weakness until rocks crack and shatter to form notches, over time waves continue to act on notch eroding it further deeper forming a cave, after some time, roof unable to support itself, collapsing, forming cliff with s wave cut platform(gentle slope )
cave arch and stacks
Erosion at the bases of headlands form caves and caves may develop at each side of the headland, further erosion joins the two caves. Further erosion prevents the roof of the arch from supporting itself, collapses and forms a stack separated from the headland
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What are waves
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Wave refraction: waves converge at headlands(more resistant)(erosion) and diverge at bays(less resistant)(deposition)
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Depositional processes
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Landforms
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spit
Long narrow ride of sediments with one end facing seawards, formed by longshore drift. bend in coastline, LSD continues to deposit sediments into the sea, accumulates rise above water surface as a spit. Hook may develop at end of spit due to wave refraction
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Coasts is a zone where land meets and interacts with the sea, formed by geology, which refers to arrangement and composition of rocks. Coasts made up of more and less resistant rocks. Less resistant erode more easily and hence forming bays where deposition>erosion. More resistant forms headlands that concentrate wave energy(wave refraction)